Carry out an evaluation of a human service organization
For this paper you will work as part of a team or individually to carry out an evaluation of a human service organization. There are two options to choose from: Option 1. You can choose your current or former field placement or place of employment to conduct the evaluation. Speak with your supervisor regarding an appropriate, feasible evaluation of interest to the agency. Ask what data might be available for you to use. Appropriate data include data regularly collected by the agency, or data that you collect yourself. The data should not be aggregated, such as in a year-end report or annual report, but should be in a format that can be analyzed using Sofastats, SPSS, or some other statistical program. Option 2. You may use a hypothetical human agency, Human Services of Southern New Jersey, for the evaluation. There is a website you may access containing information about two programs, the Girls Support Group and Substance Abuse Services. There is also data that you may use for analysis. The website is: http://humanservicesnj.weebly.com/ (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. Once there, you will be on the home page. Then click on Family Support. That page will give you a brief description of the Girls Support Group program. For more information, click on Girls Support Group Reports. Any information you do not find there you can create for purposes of this paper. To access the Substance Abuse Services, click on Substance Abuse Services. That page will give you a brief description of the services available for adolescents and adults. Click on the Outpatient Adult Substance Abuse Treatment, then Reports. You will find data that you can use for a paper.
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